Emile Zola's Works as Movies

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The essential question addressed by this paper concerns the suffering, both physical and psychic, of Zola's primary characters and how they were transferred to the screen by a trio of important French directors.

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"The translation of any work of literature into another medium, even one apparently so closely aligned with the written word as film, is always a chancy proposition. While literature and film focus themselves on the same targets within the minds of their audiences; that of completing an organic connection between the conception and the reception of an idea, the very natures of the two disciplines demand different things of the person who is reading or watching the material. As exciting and enveloping as the best film experience may be, it is still, in its essence a passive experience; every action is already determined, "painted," and set in celluloid by the filmmaker."

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